Dr Serban Pop

Senior Lecturer

Serban graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of “Babes-Bolyai” University of Cluj, Romania, with a BSc degree in Mathematics in 1999. He received his MSc in Applied Mathematics from the same institution in 2000, and his PhD in Applied Mathematics – Modelling and Simulation, from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany in 2005, in collaboration with ITWM Fraunhofer. Serban obtained the Postgraduate Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education from the Oxford Brookes University in 2015. He joined the Department of Computer Science of University of Chester as a Senior Lecturer in July 2015.

Qualifications

BSc MSc PhD PCTHE

Overview

Before joining the University of Chester, Serban held the following positions:

Research

Since completing his doctoral studies, Serban’s research work has been strongly identified as having two equally important, complementary elements, namely mathematical modelling and computer simulations, both in strong connection with real-life/industrial applications. The majority of his post-doctoral research has been developing mathematical models of relevant biological phenomena with application in medicine, and with the aim of better understanding their condition and predicting factors of their future evolution. One of his interests is modelling realistically, accurately and in real-time the blood flow through complex networks such as coronary collateralization during acute cardiac events. Developing robust flow models that can be subsequently incorporated into decision/planning virtual reality medical tools, is Serban’s main research topic.

Other interests involve computer vision, image processing, information and scientific visualizations and visual analytics. As part of the Bangor University team, Serban contributed to the submissions to VAST Challenge 2010 and 2011, a major Visual Analytics competition, which subsequently awarded two prizes.